To this day, the term ke is used in China to denote “a quarter of a hour”.

今天的中国仍然用“刻”来表示“1/4小时”。

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The Bank of England's then deputy governor promised his wife he would not be long, but more than a hour later was still pacing up and down Great Queen Street.

这位英国央行当时的副总裁向妻子承诺，他不会离开很长时间，但一个多小时过后他仍在大皇后街上踱来踱去。

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Solutions that take too long will never get done, so Squirrel suggested thinking about what you can do in a week or even in a hour, and building up the solution the next time a problem happens.

一个周期很长的方案永远也不会有完成的那一天，所以Squirrel建议更多地考虑一周之内你能做什么，甚至是一个小时之内，下次问题出现的时候，再去制定相应的解决方案。

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In a half-hour news conference, he admitted making what he called "some incredibly bad decisions" that "hurt so many people."

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They are very aggressive to be type-A people who just simply made two extra hours out of their 24-hour day.

他们渴望成为上等人,甚至希望每天,能多过两个小时。

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and a lot of other people show up and then they... a half hour after that they draw names out.

很多人都会来。半个小时后，他们抽取名字。

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The ambience feels relaxed and chic, the perfect place for a happy hour cocktail or a witching hour nightcap.

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My father, known in the family as "Rog, " rattles through the iconic players with gusto and the degree of brevity required when one is teeing off in a hour.

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Statistics from 2001 to 2005 show that a hour spent riding in a helicopter was about 40% more likely to result in an accident than an hour spent in a fixed-wing aircraft.

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